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Article: VOA NEWS: RESIDENTS IN NIGERIA'S RESTIVE NIGER DELTA HAIL PRESIDENT'S DECISION ABOUT SHELL OIL
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 6, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Peter Clottey
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has welcomed as good news a move by Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua to replace oil giant Shell by the end of the year from operating in the Niger Delta. This comes after MOSOP described its relationship with the oil company as irreparably damaged. President Yar'Adua reportedly said a new company would resume production in the southern oil fields of Ogoniland abandoned by Shell 15 years ago. The people of Ogoniland have long expressed their lack of confidence in the oil company.
Community unrest apparently sparked by poverty and pollution from oil production forced ...
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